History of Feminism
Related: About this forumThings I didn't know about Eleanor Roosevelt.
I always thought I knew a decent amount about one of America's most popular and influential First Ladies. Turns out, there were a few things I missed: real first name was Anna, Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin, and eventually died of tuberculosis. I somehow managed to read two books on FDR and watch the great History Channel documentary on the couple in '08 without committing these facts to memory.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt
Fun stuff. I wish more people could be like she was.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Both great, tho not perfect women, in their own time.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)it was fun reading thru that seeing her thru an adults eye.
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hlthe2b
(102,294 posts)She was fascinatingly ahead of her time.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)and I rather like the role. "
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."
"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
" You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."
"You must do the things you think you cannot do. "
Some quotes from the great Eleanor Roosevelt, a spectacular human being. Still vilified by the right wing because she was just so gosh darn scary.